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Perplexity Comet

https://comet.perplexity.ai/?a=b
35•birriel•7h ago

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bachittle•6h ago
AI-based chromium forks are becoming as common as AI-based visual studio code forks. I wouldn't be surprised if AI-based Linux distros started becoming popular too. Seems the ideal workflow is to fork off of existing open-source solutions, add paid features and lock behind paywall, make profit.
Spartan-S63•6h ago
I want more Webkit forks rather than more Chromium forks. That battery life is critical for me on my Mac and I think Webkit returning to Windows would be interesting too!
samrus•6h ago
anything but chromium forks. i want real competition in the browser engine space
xnx•6h ago
I thought the battery-life meme was a myth? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41542413
sea-gold•6h ago
Have you checked out Orion? It is WebKit based.

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/

aitacobell•6h ago
Cautiously optimistic that Browser Wars 2 will right many wrongs. Chrome is so bloated now.
poisonborz•5h ago
Don't expect these companies to be interested in the actual browser / DOM rendering technologies and the betterment of standards. They'll be run of the mill Chromium forks.
aitacobell•6h ago
Comet, Arc, and these other challenger browsers will hopefully light a fire under Google
xnx•6h ago
> light a fire under Google

Do you feel Chrome has been under-delivering?

I see frequent and visible feature changes. I do wish Project Mariner wasn't limited to their Ultra tier.

aitacobell•6h ago
Yeah I do, but more for its bloat and the erosion of search quality.
_boffin_•6h ago
What do you think this browser will be built on-top of?
pram•6h ago
Yeah the problem with Chrome is it doesn't have enough AI shit crammed into it.
dustyharddrive•6h ago
Arc has been abandoned.
lofaszvanitt•6h ago
Nobody seen that coming
aitacobell•5h ago
Interesting, it has? The hype has died out but I see it in the wild
dustyharddrive•5h ago
They pivoted to "AI": https://browsercompany.substack.com/p/letter-to-arc-members-...
pjm331•6h ago
a landing page about a new browser and then...

> Venus is brilliant in our sky, but brutal up close. Once possibly Earth-like, it fell into a runaway greenhouse state. Now it simmers under acid clouds, its surface hot enough to melt lead. It spins backward, slowly and strangely, like a world rewound in time.

a bunch of facts about planets?

i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

reaperducer•4h ago
i use perplexity all of the time and think its a good product but this page is baffling to me

Well, it's right there in the name: Perplexity.

Finally, some truth in marketing!

samrus•6h ago
is this a real innovation in the browser UX, or just a ploy to vacuum up as much data as possible?

you can never trust VC backed startups to do things for the users' net benefit

kveykva•6h ago
The scroll hijacking on this site itself erodes my trust in this being a browser I want to use because it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the web.
qntmfred•6h ago
and it's playing sound effects on button mouseovers? boooo.
hexomancer•6h ago
Yeah, I can’t believe this is a serious website made by a multi million dollar company. It looks like something I would have designed when I was 10.
wy35•6h ago
Scroll hijacking is the worst. Makes everything feel sluggish and unresponsive. Instantly gives me the urge to close out the tab.
xnx•6h ago
A "new" browser in the '20s is the equivalent of a browser toolbar in the '00s. It's not a product, it's a feature.
woadwarrior01•6h ago
IMO, we're back to the late 90s when every kid (I was one of them) would slap the IE ActiveX control onto a VB6 form and call it a browser.
kurtoid•6h ago
Solve the captcha/scraping problem by scraping directly in the browser. Genius
lousken•6h ago
is that the spyware browser?
pelagicAustral•6h ago
Is there a non-spyware browser? holy shit!
fsflover•6h ago
IceCat.
rylan-talerico•6h ago
Excited for this & curious how it will compare with Dia.

Launch site feels busy, though.

woadwarrior01•6h ago
Scrolljacking aside, why do the images on the page have the trademark yellow hue from ChatGPT generated images?
seatac76•6h ago
OpenAI Reaponse: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-releas...
sea-gold•6h ago
> OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
lofaszvanitt•6h ago
oh, it will be groundbreaking.... eeeeeeee nooooo.
sea-gold•6h ago
I'm rooting for Ladybird[1], a brand-new browser from scratch, backed by a non-profit.

[1] https://ladybird.org

lofaszvanitt•6h ago
It's time to wreak havoc on the back orifice of existing solutions.
ageitgey•5h ago
It's a nice idea, but it is still pretty far from even a public v0.1. I think they can get there, but it will be at least a few years.
daft_pink•5h ago
Is there a simple english summary of what this is and what it does before I download it?
pjm331•5h ago
this is a much better page about it imo https://www.perplexity.ai/comet/gettingstarted
andrewinardeer•5h ago
Am I overlooking something or is this just a link to a waitlist? There isn't actually a release yet, right?
pjm331•5h ago
correct unless you are on the perplexity max plan
pona-a•5h ago
This has to be among the least informative landing pages I've seen yet. Vague marketing woo, giant hero images, scroll hijacking, sound effects, and zero screenshots.

They literally have a sliding section taking up significant scroll height that's dedicated to our solar system, and when I clicked one of the planets, expecting it to maybe reveal a usage example—I did actually get a full spiel about Mars, with still no hint of the product.

bicepjai•4h ago
I have a year subscription with perplexity and use it everyday for search. Honest reaction from getting started page demos for comet “I would not want that”
senectus1•2h ago
yeah I explicitly do not want my searches "tailored" to me. I want factual results that I can explore and pick holes in.

I want it to be a trustworthy tool, not a companion.

patrickscoleman•2h ago
You should check out kagi then

http://kagi.com/

snorrah•57m ago
What a fucking awful website what the fuck is happening when I tried to scroll?

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